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Monday, 28 October 2013

ISC 2015 Class XI and XII Elective English Syllabus

Objectives:

1. To provide candidates with a wider course in Literature
in English than offered in the compulsory English paper

CLASS XI

There will be one paper of three hours duration of 100 marks
with questions set from the prescribed textbooks. Candidates will be required
to answer five questions on a minimum of three of the prescribed textbooks.

CLASS XII

There will be one paper of three hours duration of 100 marks
with questions set from the prescribed textbooks. Candidates will be required
to answer five questions on a minimum of three of the prescribed textbooks.

1. The questions in the paper will be broadly based on the
following categories:

(i) Prose

(ii) Drama

(iii) Poetry

The question may be character-based, incident based, general
broad based, theme based or require critical evaluation.

2. Students will need to study and have knowledge of the
following:

(a) Prose and Drama

(i) Life of the playwright and novelist and important events
therein

(ii) Evaluation of characters and the roles played by them
in the text

(iii) Description of each incident in the play or novel and
its significance

(iv) Important themes and motifs of the text.

(v) Relationships between characters and incidents

2. To expose candidates to a deeper knowledge and
appreciation of literary works in English

(vi) Patterns and nuances of the text

(vii) Fantasy and the supernatural

(viii) Stylistic and narrative devices

(ix) Students’ personal response to and assessment of the
novel/play.

(x) Humour, pathos, tragedy, sarcasm and so on in the texts

(xi) The novel/play in the context of contemporary society

(b) Poetry

(i) Different types of poems with their characteristics and
features:

Lyric

Sonnet – both Petrarchian (Italian) and Shakespearean

Ballad

Elegy

Blank verse

Free verse

Narrative poetry

Pastoral poetry

Dramatic monologue

Romantic poetry

(ii) All figures of speech and literary devices in detail (how
to recognize them):

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Apostrophe

Alliteration

Assonance

Repetition

Irony

Imagery

Enjambment

Pun

Contrast

Climax and anti-climax or bathos

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Oxymoron

Litotes

Symbolism

(iii) A thorough knowledge of the poets’ lives and styles of
writing

(iv) Important themes of the poems

(v) Patterns and nuances of the poems

(vi) Fantasy and the supernatural if present in any poem

(vii) Symbolism and Imagery

(viii) How to write a proper Critical Evaluation /
Appreciation, which must contain the following components:

Life of the poet and how it has impacted his/her style of writing

Autobiographical element in the poem

Type of poem

Setting

Theme

Mood and atmosphere

Different levels of meaning in the poem, if any

Rhyme scheme and its significance

Symbolism

Imagery

Literary devices

The student’s own personal response to the poem

Note: Credit is given for textual detail and for the
candidate’s own response.

If candidates answer two questions on any one book, they
should not base them both on the same material.

Candidates are advised to exercise their options with great
care, keeping in view their knowledge and understanding of the question(s)
chosen. Candidates are also expected to be precise. They must avoid unnecessary
details.

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